by Peter Rowland | Thursday, October 15, 2020
Australian Bush Fly Scientific Name: Musca vetustissima Size: TL 7mm What does it look like? The Australian Bush Fly is ashy-grey with 2 diverging black stripes on the thorax, becoming 4 near the head, and red eyes. The 2 rounded, triangular, transparent wings touch...
by Peter Rowland | Friday, October 16, 2020
Australian Cockroach Scientific Name: Periplaneta australasiae Size: Total Length 35mm What does it look like? The Australian Cockroach is brown, with a yellow border around the pronotum and longitudinal yellow stripes on the outer edges of the wings. Very similar to...
by Peter Rowland | Friday, October 16, 2020
Banana Stalk-fly Scientific Name: Telostylinus lineolatus Size: TL 20mm What does it look like? The Banana-stalk Fly is dark brown and yellowish-cream, with large red eyes on elongated head, and moderately long, thickened antennae with single long thin arista arising...
by Peter Rowland | Thursday, October 22, 2020
Blue Triangle Scientific Name: Graphium choredon Size: Wingspan 57-60mm What does it look like? Blue Triangle adults are virtually unmistakable with any other butterfly species in Australia. Wings with broad black margins, bright turquoise-blue central panels and...
by Peter Rowland | Thursday, October 22, 2020
Black-headed Sugar Ant Scientific Name: Camponotus nigriceps Size: Total Length 8-14mm What does it look like? The Black-headed Sugar Ant has a black head and abdomen (gaster), remainder of body brownish. Body smooth with sparse short hairs, longer and most numerous...
